2018 NFL Week 5 Score Report

Most points, most touchdowns, most touchdown passes...

Those had all been broken for the first four weeks of the season this year.

So how'd Week 5 go?

• Week 5 points per game:  47.27      Last year: 43.36        Two years ago:  44.64 
• 5 Week Total points per game:  47.90      Last year: 43.90        Two years ago:  45.38
• Home teams 12-3 for the week, 51-25-2 for the year, a full .667.
• Home teams are now winning TWO THIRDS of all games.
• Last year:  4-10 for 37-38.  Two years ago:  7-7 for 41-35.
• Over was 7-7-1 for the week (PIT-ATL pushed at a total of 58!!!!) for 41-36-1 overall.  Last year:  7-7 for 36-37-4.  Two years ago:  7-7 for 41-35.
• Favorites:  7-8 against the number, 10-5 straight up.  For the year:  34-42-2 ATS, 49-27 SU.
• Last year:  8-6 both ways for 34-43 ATS, 46-31 SU.  Two years ago: 7-6-1 ATS and 8-6 SU for 34-35-1 ATS and 40-30 SU.
• Still through five weeks, you could bet the money line better on a straight home-team basis than on the favorites straight up.
• Ben Fawkes of ESPN Chalk noted that the Rams covering against the Seahawks were the biggest bet of the week.  The now-Super Bowl favorite undefeated Rams did NOT cover the 7.5.
• There were SIX 50+ point Vegas totals this week.  The Over was 4-1-1 in those six games.
• There have now been, through Week 5, NINETEEN 50+ point Vegas total.  The Over is 11-7-1! 
• The 58 total on PIT-ATL is the highest Vegas NFL total since the final week of the 2016 season.  New Orleans and Atlanta kicked at 58.5 -- and totaled 70!!!
• According to Pro Football Reference (which also gave the last factoid):  The record for the highest Vegas total in history is The Greatest Show on Turf vs. San Francisco.  That game kicked at SIXTY-THREE.  Total score was 58.  A 60 in Week 16 of 2004 between Kansas City and Oakland totaled 61.
• The 58 total is tied with several other games for the eighth highest Vegas total in history.
• Team with more penalties is 4-9 this week, 26-38 for the year.
• 198 penalties this week, 13.2 a game.  1080 accepted penalties for the year, 13.8 per game.
• 4 Cliffhangers this week, including a 63 yard field goal at the gun for the winner in Carolina.  Last year had 3, two years ago had 2.
• Only 7 of the 15 games finished within 8 points.  Last year had 11, two years ago had 7.
• 5 non-competitive games and only one Last Chance Miss.
• Totals:  17 Cliffhangers (15 past year, 14 two years ago).  
• 44 games end within one score.  (Last year:  40, Two years ago:  53)
• 23 non-competitive games.  (Last year:  27, Two years ago:  19)
• 16 Last Chance Misses (Last year:  15, Two years ago:  19)

And now the early ratings numbers:

• National Window:  14.2 (down 8%)  But if you take out the Cowboys national windows, it's only second to SNF Packers-Bears.
• SNF had the Cowboys instead, and drew 12.4, biggest SNF Week 5 in three years.
• Regional Window:  9.2 (up 5%)
• Singleheader Window:  9.0  (All square)